Chapter Ninety-Three: Abandoning the City

The giants marched towards the city wall with huge steps, waving the trunks of the trees in their hands from time to time, and let out a low, powerful roar, and each giant was followed by a large group of Tufan soldiers, who also shouted loudly and walked majestically.

As the giants got closer and closer, the soldiers on the city wall were a little flustered, and some of the warriors shot the arrows in their hands in advance, and those arrows were planted weakly into the ground before they could fly in front of the giants.

Closer, the giants had come into range of the walls, and the giants seemed to grow taller, as if they could reach out to the soldiers on the walls. At this moment, with an order, bows and arrows and trebuchets were fired at the same time on the city wall, and a rain of arrows and stones flew towards the giants.

The giants didn't have the slightest intention of evading, and those arrows were like a small bamboo stick thrown at the giants, touching the heavy armor on the giants' bodies, and after making a "jingle bell" sound, they were bounced to the ground. The flying stones that smashed into the giant were more like a small pebble, and they were flicked out by the giant's armor, and they had no effect at all, and this rain of arrows and flying stones was like a breeze blowing through the giants, and they walked forward as always.

In the blink of an eye, the giants came to the city wall, they raised their hands and waved the trunk towards the city wall, some used the trunk to scratch and pull on the city wall, and some used the trunk to smash the city wall, and suddenly the city wall was in chaos, but fortunately, the soldiers on the city wall retreated relatively quickly, and there were not many people left after a while.

The soldiers who had no time to escape were knocked down by the trunks waved by the giants, and were knocked down under the city wall together with the battlements of the city wall.

After the resistance on the city wall was completely lost, the Tufan soldiers who followed behind began to rush out, rushed to the city wall, set up a siege ladder, and struggled to climb up.

The giants were still slamming their trunks against the top of the wall, as if they were going to knock the whole wall over, and two giants were slamming their bodies against the gate of the wall, and the thick gate of the wall was about to crumble.

At this time, Luffy, the general of the Yuwen Army who was in the city wall, was riding on a tall horse, watching the battle situation on the city wall, and when he saw that no one could escape from the city wall, he waved the command flag in his hand.

Under the command of General Luffy, dozens of soldiers from the Western Regions rushed to the foot of the city wall, ignited hundreds of oil barrels that had been buried in advance, and then quickly followed General Luffy to withdraw from the West Gate from Kirihara Castle.

Here, the two giants just knocked the city gate open, and suddenly with a loud bang, the entire south gate city wall fell outward, and the tall city wall that was still standing in front of them just now instantly turned into a pile of rocks, burying countless Tufan soldiers and nearly a hundred giants in it, and then was engulfed in a burst of fire and smoke.

After a while, dozens of giant warriors struggled out of the rubble and ran back to the Tufan position.

The Tufan army from behind rushed up, rushed through the ruins and into Kirihara Castle, and in a short time completely occupied the already empty castle.

Deyong Khan, who came to supervise the battle, looked at this empty city that had just been captured, and didn't know whether to be happy or angry. This was the first time he had used the Giant Warriors on the battlefield, and the Giant Warriors' invincible combat power and siege ability made him very satisfied, and made him see the hope of dominating the Central Plains. It's just that these giants still have a satisfactory weapon, and this expedition is very urgent, so he can only temporarily cut down a big tree for each giant warrior as a weapon, and he has ordered the rear to step up the production of weapons for the giant warriors.

And what is infuriating is that just such a small empty city has caused him to lose a small half of the giant warriors, which makes him feel heartbroken, thinking that he is a little careless, after all, this is the place where King Yuwen, who has been with him in the Northern Regions for more than ten years, is stationed. In order to prevent them from falling into the enemy's trap again, he ordered his troops to stop the pursuit and first stationed at Kirihara Castle.

King Yuwen gathered the retreating troops twenty miles west of Kirihara Castle and waited in place for the arrival of the last retreating troops. General Chu was a little worried that the Tufan army would chase after him, and wanted the troops to continue in the direction of Xiama Pass first. King Yuwen told him not to worry, the Tufan army would never dare to pursue rashly.

It was not until the last group of retreating soldiers returned that King Yuwen calmly lined up his troops, and after counting the men and horses, he determined that the army of the Western Regions had lost more than 400 soldiers in this battle, and according to the observation of the front-line soldiers, the enemy army may have lost nearly 2,000 soldiers, and most importantly, more than 30 giant warriors may have died under the city walls. After the inventory was completed, the troops of nearly 100,000 horses and horses were neatly lined up and calmly advanced towards the Xiama Pass.

The general army of Chu immediately rushed to the city of Xiama to report to the king of Zhenxi. When he saw this neat and uniform army of the Western Regions under the leadership of King Yuwen, with high morale, he remembered the scene when King Yuwen fled from the Northern Regions to Tongyuan City, isn't it the same. He now somewhat believed his daughter's belief that King Yuwen had also deliberately retreated from defeat in the first place.

King Zhenxi was taken aback after receiving the report from the front, he did not expect that in the case of King Yuwen personally returning to the defense, Tongyuan Castle would only hold on for less than two hours and be lost. When the herald sent by General Chu arrived, he gave him a detailed account of the battle, and after listening to it, he couldn't help but gasp.

"Iron giants?" he tried to imagine in his mind what it would look like, and when he heard that nearly a hundred steel giants appeared on the battlefield, as if no one had land, and the city had been completely broken in less than half an hour, King Zhenxi opened his mouth in surprise.

When he heard that King Yuwen not only retreated from Kirihara Castle, but also killed 2,000 enemies in the battle to defend the city, and killed more than 30 giant warriors, he couldn't believe it. At the beginning, he was a little worried about whether King Yuwen deliberately gave up Tongyuan City to Tufan, so it seems that this is not the case, King Yuwen deliberately used the empty city to trap and kill the giant troops of Tufan Kingdom, it can be seen that King Yuwen came back this time to really want to help the Western Regions resist Tufan.

King Zhenxi also inquired from the herald that the army that had withdrawn from Tongyuan City this time was all composed of the original Western Regions troops and newly recruited troops, and the 20,000 elite troops led by King Yuwen himself did not return with him, and he only brought a few civilian officials and guards with him. This made him feel very relieved, and quickly gave the order, preparing to open the city gate to welcome the army of Kirihara City into the city, he really needed to have enough soldiers and horses now, with this army of 100,000 people, he could now at least compete with Tufan in terms of troops.